Ep. 44 – How Leaning Into Yourself Leads to Success with Alvina Nadeem

Welcome again to another episode of Engineer Your Success! Today, we are joined by Alvina Nadeem. Over the last 10 years, Alvina has participated in several large-scale construction projects and has held varying roles such as Team Leader, Project Manager, Planning Engineer, Field Engineer, Commissioning/Turnover Coordinator, and Proposal Manager. Her engineering and project management experience allowed her to travel and exposed her to different people, companies, and cultures—from the beautiful islands of Capo Verde in Africa to the quaint towns of Newfoundland in Canada. As a PROSCI certified change management practitioner, certified coach, and professional engineer, Alvina brings a unique mix of technical industry experience and her passion for personal and organizational transformation. By combining these worlds, Alvina offers clients her curiosity, creativity, and accessibility, as well as her cartesian, results-driven engineering experience to help clients build a vision, create well-thought-out action plans, and achieve measurable results. Let’s dive in! [00:01 – 12:05] Being a Woman in the Construction Industry Learning how to navigate the construction site as a woman and how it helped her career. Leaning into yourself and finding success [12:06 – 23:47]  From Being Curios to Building Change Management Impact of structuring a business with change management. Helping other companies transition and transform. Organizational transformation Space management. Technical Transformation [23:47 – 32:50] Pieces of Advice When Going through a Transformation Journey Sharing your journey from the beginning in order to win people over. Being authentic and leaning into your strengths is the key to being successful during a transformation. Having a goal and plan for change. If you know something don’t pretend to know it. Confidence is not about knowing everything [37:32 – 40:15] Closing Segment Using ADKAR Principle, Awareness Desire Knowledge Ability Reinforcement Final announcements. Connect with Alvina on LinkedIn or follow her on Instagram   Sponsors: Banowetz Marketing: Growing a business is hard. Banowetz Marketing provides an action plan and expert help so your family business can thrive BanowetzMarketing.com/James Coupon Code: JAMES to get 3 FREE hours of logo design or redesign work with the purchase of any other product.   If you are impacted by this content, please be sure to subscribe for more access to the empowering conversations from me and guests who are working to help you engineer your success! Use this link to drop a question or a topic that you would like to see covered on a future episode: Questions or topic suggestions Let’s connect! Find me on my LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. I’d love to hear from you. You have the strength of a hero within you. Check out my website https://betteryou4u.co